Safety hat-pin.



W. S. CHILDRESS.

SAFETY HAT PIN.

APPLIoATIoN FILED 111111.10, 1911.

1,020,384. Patented Mar.12,1912.

Ven Ol" r I Attorneys 'UNTTE WILLIAM S. CHILDRESS, 0F KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

SAFETY HAT-PIN.

T 0 all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, VILLIAM S. CHILD- nEss, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Safety Hat-Pin, of which the following is ay specification.

This invention relates to guards for use in connection with hat pins, its object being to provide a simple and attractive device of this character which can be readily placed in engagement with the po-inted end of a hat pin and which will remain in position until forcibly removed therefrom.

A further object is to provide a guard of this character which is cheap to manufacture and which will not readily get out of order.

lVit-h these and other objects in view the invention consists in certain novel details of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter more fully described and pointed out in the claim.

ln the accompanying` drawings the preferred forms of the invention have been shown.

Tn said drawings z-Figure 1 is an elevation of a hat pin having a guard applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section through the guard. Fig. 3 is a section on line A-B Eig. 2, Eig. 4. is a section on line C-D Fig. 2. Fig. 5 a central longitudinal section through a modified form of guard.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference l designates a casing which may be suitably ornamented and of any desired shape. This casing has a central longitudinal bore 2 in which is arranged a core 3 preferably formed of two oppositely disposed similar semi-cylindrical sections each of which has a longitudinally extending recess 4 in its fiat face and which extends throughout the width thereof, so that, when the two sections are assembled, these recesses will coperate to form a longitudinal slot extending through the core. Longitudinal grooves 5 are formed in the meeting faces of the core sections and cooperate to form a passage opening into the slot 4, the outer end of this passage being flared as shown at 6. The core, when seated within the casing l, is flush with one end of the said casing.

Slot l contains preferably two gripping elements one of which may, if desired, be in Specification of Letters Patent.

Application led March 10, 1911.

Patented Mar. 12, 1912.

Serial No. 613,554.

the form of a non-resilient bar 7 fitting in one side portion of the slot and having teeth S upon its inner edge. That end of this bar which is nearest the passage or groove 5 is beveled or rounded as shown at 9. The gripping member cooperating with the bar is preferably in the form of a bow spring 10 seated within the slot l and bearing at its ends against the casing l. This member 10 normally engages the intermediate toothed portion of the bar 7.

lVhen the pointed portion of a hat pin 11 is inserted into the passage 5, it will come into contact with the beveled or rounded end 9 of the bar 7 and with the adjoining end portion of the spring l0, and, upon being forced a greater distance into the guard, said pointed end will wedge between the bar 7 and the spring 10 and be held tightly in engagement with the teeth 8 by said spring 10. Obviously, therefore, the guard will not slip off of the pin and can only be disengaged therefrom by exerting a sufficiently strong pull to withdraw it from between the gripping members 7 and l0. By flaring.; the outer end of the passage 5, the point of the pin is properly guided into the passage and by rounding or bei/'cling one end of the member 7, the pin, upon entering the guard, is prevented from becoming caught and thus hindered from passing between the two gripping members.

Instead of providing an unyielding gripping member such as has been shown at 7 in Fig. 2. two oppositeiy disposed bow springs 12 may belemployed as shown in Fig. 5, one of these springs, if desired, being formed with teeth 13 so that the inserted pin will be firmly engaged and the guard prevented from accidentally slipping off of it.

Vhile the core has been shown and described as formed of two pieces of metal or the like it is to be understood that, if preferred, it can be made in a single piece properly slotted. This construction is so obvious that it is not deemed necessary to illustrate it.

Various changes can of course be made in the construction and arrangement of the parts without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention as defined in the appended claim.

What is claimed is A guard for hat pins, including a casing,

a oore theiein and having a pin receiving In testimony that I claim the foregoing opening in one end exposed in one end of as iny own, I have hereto affixed .my signa'- the casing, a toothed gripping member fxture in the presence of two Witnesses.

edly seated Wit-hin the core cund in the path WILLIAM S. CHILDRESS. of the inserted pin, and yielding means for vVtnessesr binding the pin upon said gripping niein- CHAS. W. HAZELL,

bei'. R. F. RODELL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

